Publications

Publication details [#32081]

Vaid, Jyotsna, Rachel Hull, Roberto Heredia, David Gerkens and Francisco Martinez. 2003. Getting a joke: the time course of meaning activation in verbal humor. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (9) : 1431–1449.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

humor | intention | joke | meaning, comprehension of

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study on the time course of meaning activation in jokes uses two lexical decision semantic priming tests to investigate when the initial and the intended meanings are primed; whether they overlap in time; and what becomes of the initial reading once the punchline is encountered.